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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-15 ADM/A/1798/154
Upon consideration of your letter of 24 July, we agreed to pay Captain Torpley wages due to him for his service in the ships LION and EDGAR, to the time when we agreed to forgive Commanders for not complying with the Instructions of the Admiralty, but not to pay him to the time of his suspension.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-25 ADM/A/1782/218
Warrant appointing Christopher Brimsden to be Boatswain of the LENNOX in place of the former who has been moved to the Hulk at Plymouth. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-15 ADM/A/1798/156
John Greirson is to be appointed Gunner of the ENGLAND hired ship. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 15 August 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1832/248
The ST MALO at Kingroad, having lain so long for want of her ordnance and stores that her provisions are almost expended. She being required on immediate service you are directed to give orders that her provisions be completed to 10 weeks from Bristol, as soon as possibly may be.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-16 ADM/A/1798/162
Captain Wisheart was removed from the PEARL into the MARY galley, in 1690, and was then immediately ordered away to Carrickfergus Roads to Dublin by Sir Cloudesley Shovell and had no opportunity to deliver the muster books and other papers to his successor.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-16 ADM/A/1798/168
Joseph Gascoigne is to be appointed Purser of the CORONATION hired ship. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 16 August 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-16 ADM/A/1798/164
John Bately, late Master Carpenter of the HAWK fireship, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the new 5th Rate building by Mr Ellis at Shoreham. You are to enter him accordingly, as soon as she is ready to receive him, together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-25 ADM/A/1832/254
You are directed to have the MONK, upon arrival at Sheerness, supplied with a new foremast and cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, victualling her for 10 weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/250
John Reed is to be appointed Purser of the THUNDER BOLT prize. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 24 July 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-14 ADM/A/1798/136
James Peake is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the SMYRNA MERCHANT hired ship. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 14 August 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-14 ADM/A/1798/138
John Bores is to be appointed Boatswain of the SMYRNA MERCHANT hired ship. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 14 August 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-28 ADM/A/1782/238
Warrant appointing Robert Hoskins, late Cook of the DUNBARTON, to be Cook of the NEW AFRICA Hired ship during her continuing in HM service. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-28 ADM/A/1782/234
Sir Henry Johnson has offered to build new ships for the Navy. The Navy Board is instructed to negotiate with him to build two sixty-gun ships on terms not in excess of those secured with other shipyards on the Thames.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-28 ADM/A/1782/232
Warrant appointing Josias Pilgrim to be Master Joiner at Plymouth upon the Yard becoming fully established. Until that time he is to be employed as Master Joiner at that Yard on wages only. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-28 ADM/A/1782/230
Ordering the ROEBUCK Fireship to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel and supplied with four months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-26 ADM/A/1782/226
Warrant appointing Thomas Ireland to be Boatswain of the PRINCE OF ORANGE Hired ship during the time she remains in commission. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/238
A petition has been presented to this Board in the name of Rebecca Layton, setting forth that her son John Ely served for 2 years in the SAMUEL & HENRY and CAPTAIN, and being left ashore at Torbay he entered aboard the FOWY and was pricked as Run for his former services.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/230
We have received an account from Consul Blackwell at Livorne of disbursements in maintaining and clothing poor seamen. We send you a copy enclosed and direct you to examine this and give your opinion.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/236
The SAUDADOES was taken by the enemny on 23 February 1695 and a Court Martial found that Captain Day, her Commander, was not found wanting in his duty and acquitted. You are directed to have her Commander, officers and company paid the wages due to them to the time she was taken.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-15 ADM/A/1798/152
The NEW AFRICA is ordered to sail from the Buoy of the Nore to Hambrough [Hamburg], and her Commander advises us by letter of 13 August, that he has not been supplied with his provisions. You are directed to give orders for the immediate hastening of provisions to the ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-22 ADM/A/1782/178
Petition of Joseph Phillips, Purser of the ASSISTANCE, in which he states that following many years service and having become lame he has been left ashore without means of subsistence and is applying to become superannuated. On the reverse is an instruction to the Navy Board to provide an opinion.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/126
You are directed to hire a merchant ship the BONADVENTURE at the same rates at which she formerly served their Majesties as a man-of-war.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-18 ADM/A/1782/164
Requiring the three new Third Rates building at Woolwich, Southampton and Bursledon to be fitted out for sea as soon as possible and furnished their highest complements of Men and Victuals. They are to be named the BREDA, the CORNWALL and the DEVONSHIRE.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/124
Captain Ripley, Commander of the OXFORD, has advised us in his letter of 9 August that he is in want of a smack for pressing men. You are directed to furnish him with one.